Warning on Storage of Health Records
April 17th, 2008
In an article in The New England Journal of Medicine, two leading researchers warn that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google...
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Worker Charged in Hospital File Thefts
April 13th, 2008
An employee of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center was charged on Saturday in federal court in Manhattan with stealing nearly 50,000 patient files and...
California Hospital Faces Sanctions After Workers Wrongly Looked at Patient Records
April 8th, 2008
The private records of more than 60 patients, including the actress Farrah Fawcett and the state’s first lady, Maria Shriver, were improperly viewed by...
More Snooping Into UCLA Medical Records
April 7th, 2008
California first lady Maria Shriver is among more than 30 celebrities and other high-profile patients who had their confidential records breached at UCLA Medical...
The Already Big Thing on the Internet: Spying on Users
April 5th, 2008
In 1993, the dawn of the Internet age, the liberating anonymity of the online world was captured in a well-known New Yorker cartoon. One...
Safeguarding Private Medical Data
March 26th, 2008
Almost 2,500 patients taking part in a federal medical trial recently had their private health data compromised when a researcher’s laptop computer was stolen....
Physician, Upgrade Thyself
May 30th, 2007
Go into almost any medical office, hospital or clinic in the United States and your records will still be handled the old-fashioned way —...
Suit Sheds Light on Clintons’ Ties to a Benefactor
May 26th, 2007
When former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton took a family vacation in January 2002 to Acapulco, Mexico, one of their longtime...
City Orders Labs to Submit Data From Tests of Diabetics
December 15th, 2005
As part of a broad new effort to better understand how diabetics manage their illness, the New York City Board of Health is ordering...
Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs
October 26th, 2005
An internal memo sent to Wal-Mart’s board of directors proposes numerous ways to hold down spending on health care and other benefits while seeking...